Reflection Of My People In The Novel 'Noli Me Tangere'

My people, the Filipino race, are citizens of the world. Our lives are God-given and the fact that we were made into this world shows that we have the right to live as part of this world. We all stand on equal footing, and so, we must be treated the same as you do your people. We demanded the simple respect that at least you treat our people as human, but you did not deliver. Such pride of being a lighter complexion and being of a different race from us had made you look at us with such disgust and how elite you think your society was made you feel superior and trampled over our barefoot men with leather-clad feet and pointed heels. What was with the small difference that made you Spaniards act like you owned the world?
Ah, it was because you almost did. You owned colonies and countries which your people ruled over. Your kingdom was so vast …show more content…
Affected, and offended by the words of honesty that you called as brainwashing, that with this book my people will think of you different, that with this book I expose them to crazy ideas, but that was my goal. I wanted to show the people through my words the reality you called as absurd and untrue. But it was. The efforts you Spaniards have made to keep my books from the eyes of my audience have shown that I really had struck a nerve. And I would want to strike another. The fact that you all were hurrying to burn my books and imprisoning those who have read them was more the reason to say that you were threatened by my actions. You didn’t want more of your slaves to know. And what was deemed impossible, that someone had the ability to stand on the throne you all so claim and push you off your beloved chairs has come true. You started to fear and perceived me as dangerous. And with my works opening the eyes of my people, they have realized that they have no right to be treated as you treat them and you have no right to treat them as you